Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FABIAN OF THE YARD (208 pp.)-Rob-erf Fabian-British Book Cenfre...
...corpse of Dagmar Peters was the only clue Scotland Yard's Inspector Robert Fabian had when he arrived on the scene. The man whom the British press calls "the greatest detective in the world" may have been temporarily stymied, but he was not permanently stumped. In this and the 30 other cases he re-enacts in Fabian of the Yard, the inspector relies mostly on elementary, patient common sense and laboratory work, but he flashes enough intuitive genius to hold his own with the best of the fictional homicide squad-Holmes, Maigret, Philo Vance and Nero Wolfe...
...Jury Did Not Believe. With Dagmar's corpse on his hands. Fabian looked around the roadside for signs of a struggle. Finding none, he reasoned that the body had been dumped from a car. The Yard's pathologist bore him out. "She had been seated upright . . . after she died," he said. "Seated in a motor car?" asked Fabian. "Something less upholstered," the doctor suggested. Out went Fabian's order: check all trucks that used the road between...
...check proved futile, but Fabian's guess about trucks turned out to be right anyway. When the dead woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger...
Under the Instep, No Count. Frequently, Fabian made flimsy clues pay big detection dividends. He once flushed a bogus count bent on marrying a U.S. heiress by noting that his shoes had not been polished under the instep, as they would have been had the "count" stayed in swank hotels. Another time Fabian solved a jewel-shop robbery largely because it had been observed that the thief wore a tropical suit and, as he left the scene, cursed a bystander in Arabic. After ferreting out further details from jewel fences, Fabian nabbed a discharged member of the Palestine police force...